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James Blake

U.K. dance music sub-genre's don't usually produce soulful singer-songwriters... but then again, there aren't a lot of artists like Blake. James Blake uses neosoul keyboards, blip beats & layers of heart-starved snippets into a sonically full yet empty space of melody. His cover of Feist's "Limit to Your Love" is what first caught my attention. James released 2009's 12" Air & Lack Thereof, 2010's The Bells Sketch (E.P.), Klavierwerke (E.P.) and CMYK (E.P.), before releasing his self-titled debut album in 2011. Blake is soulful, having one of the sweetest voices in modern music. Since then he has released 2011's Enough Thunder (E.P.), & Love What Happened Here (E.P.) before releasing his sophomore effort & my personal favorite, 2013's Overgrown, with the amazing tracks "Retrograde" and the title track. Black has released two more albums since then: his third album, 2016's The Colour In Anything and 2019's fourth album Assume Form as well as 2020's Before (E.P.) and Covers (E.P.). On top of all this, Blake has collaborated & produced tracks with/for: Airhead, Beyoncé, Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, Travis Scott, Jay Z, Mount Kimbie, Kendrick Lamar, Future, Jayrock & Onehotrix Point Never. Always geneuine, never fake.

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